Sustainable Innovation: Agritech's Top Priorities for the Next Decade
Modern farming has fed the world but is now straining it - accelerating soil degradation, ecosystem collapse, and emissions, while horticulture and tree cropping lag on innovation and lean heavily on seasonal labour. Water, agriculture's most vital resource, is still tracked and conserved inefficiently. As robotics, space technology, software, and plant science race to close these gaps, this roundtable asks the hard questions: What are the three themes that will define global agriculture over the next decade? Which barriers can agritech realistically solve - and which can't it? Where does academic research need to step in to turn promising technology into real-world solutions? And ultimately, as this transformation unfolds, who stands to win, and who gets left behind?